Good morning everyone, I'm Morgan Donner and in today's video I
would like to clean up and reorganize my fabric stash using the Konmari method.
Like a lot of people (I suspect) I've been hearing a lot recently about Marie Kondo
probably in large part because of her new Netflix show "Tidying Up". I heard
about it from friends, I saw people talking about it on forms and
what-have-you and I was curious so I watched a few episodes, I read the book,
and I have really been wanting to tackle my sewing/craft room for a while now so
this seems like a really great catalyst to get that started. As per the book, this
is not step one of cleaning up, if you're doing a full house tidying in the way
that she describes. The idea is that you want to tackle the easier things first,
like clothing is number one because it's pretty easy to get rid of clothing that
you don't need anymore - look through your stuff and get rid of the things that are
too big, too small, too itchy, too out of season, to don't fit your lifestyle
anymore - and then progress to harder topics based on, you know, how emotionally
attached you might be to them. I feel like fabric is the "clothing" of my craft
room and I feel like there are definitely some pieces in here that I
could make very quick easy decisions about and go "Nope, don't need that, don't
need that" and there are some that might be a little bit tougher,
we'll see. Fabric is very easy to get into that mindset of "No, don't get rid of
it because you might have a use for this later! You know, maybe you don't like this
color but it would be great for mock-ups or it would be good for this or that or
the other thing." but we want to clear out what's not doing us any good so that we
have more room for awesome fabrics --which I have on the way for those of you
interested in updates regarding the Janet Arnold stays, I'm getting there
eventually... maybe..... So to jump on in, I think I'm going to treat it the same way
that you would the clothes and dump them all out, so let me get on that!
Patterns will come later..... so for anyone who watched my Butterick 6018 dress
making video, that dress was actually intended to be a mock-up, it wasn't
supposed to be my final version. I know mock-ups are always good, that way you can
test if you liked the pattern before you make it again, check that it fits you and all that -
.... I never did get back to that, making the actual dress.
So that is all of those shelves, I do still have stuff in a few more of these shelves, like I've
got boxes and things up there, down here I've got some pattern paper stuff, I've
got some bubble wrap for packaging, but that's not fabric, so it's not part of
this equation. So here's my beautiful fabric collection. All said and done,
this really isn't very much fabric! I've seen people with much bigger collections.
I have bought or found various fabrics over the years and sometimes when I find
a fabric that's really really great, especially at a good price, I have a
tendency to want it. The problem with a lot of those that I find is that they
are often in like just one or two yard pieces which is less useful....
Maybe I should do a video about "what to do with one yard or less!" ?
I do know that there
are some pieces in here that I I really don't need to hold onto.
They don't serve a great function - you only need so much mock-up fabric right!?
Let's go ahead and start start tackling this down!
This is a very bright green!
This fabric is actually kind of fun because it started out as a incredibly
bright, bright, bright green and I went ahead and dyed it to be just a little
less so. I think I've got five or six yards of it, so it gets an automatic good.
I think what I'm gonna do for this is make a keep pile, a get rid of pile, and fold it up after.
I do love silk.
This was a piece of wool I found that was really cool,
I love that it's stripy but I don't have many historical garments
that I would want to make that would be striped .... but I love the *idea* of stripes.
Maybe.
This is a very very pretty earthy green, keep!
It's a very pretty color....
I'm actually wondering if it's all wool... let me go grab a lighter, I'll do a quick test!
Wool sometimes has a kind of wet dog smell which makes sense: their fur - dog fur.
It does smell like burning hair, which is is usually what you want to look for
with wool ... it might not be a 100% wool but I think it has a pretty high
content so it'll pass for now.
This one I know I can definitely get rid of, I
picked it up because I thought it would be really pretty as a dress/skirt overlay.
I don't like sewing with sheers.
This one's really really cute, it actually has little greyhounds on it,
running through the the Paisley forest. It's very cute but I don't have any
use for it so goodbye!
This is just some simple black wool, never hurts to have that.
Here's one of those ones where I've only got like two
yards, maybe a yard and a half, but I like it! It's so green and the wooly.
Still smells like burning dog hair. That's the downside of burn tests.
Oh, there's so much of it! Which is very exciting, I have no idea what I'm gonna make with it.
This will be good for something at some point!
I think this one deserves another burn test.
This looks a bit weird, it's got a little bit of that burning hair smell that I
associate with wool but it has a really hard bead and it bubbles when it's
burning which tells me that it is definitely not a hundred percent wool.
It's got something else in there. There are some parts of it that have
been damaged, so I think let's just get this little tiny piece of fabric sorry
I'm sorry mate I think you've gotta go
the smell of burnt wool is not very pleasant but it is distinctive look at
this nice purple I don't ever wear a purple but it is very pretty maybe this
one's a pretty easy decision I have a little bit of some red linen I don't
whoa see how it continues to hold a flame that's one of the things that's
really nice about wool which this is not wool will self put out really quickly
this for the most part whereas some other fibers will just keep on
smoldering hmm this might have a lot of cotton in it it has a sort of like paper
II smell wing burnt which kind of makes sense for cotton because it's a
plant-based fiber so you papers also plant-based fiber
I'm very eloquent today no I have a lot of it and I think that it could go to a
good home but I think that doesn't need to be my home I have already used it for
something if I ever do a video about what to do with small pieces of fabric
this green I think is wool but it's one of those kind of more bitchy wolves
here's some cotton which is nice for mock-ups but again you only need so much
mock-up material so
for a lot of these scraps my mind immediately jumps to oh hey this is
about enough for a hood but you only need so many hoods sitting in my room
burning pieces of fabric this one's very fun it's just so incredibly bright but I
don't think I have any projects that it'll work for so mock up fabric that is
actually already earmarked for a project so I should set that aside red wool the
best this is what sparks joy in my life red wool with some slight twill texture
anytime I see this heathered gray pattern color and texture combo I
immediately think sweatpants so here's some plaid that I am inexplicably
going to keep despite having gotten rid of a bunch of my other plaid pieces this
is something that I've had since I was a little kid I do kind of have a little
bit of an attachment to this one and that's fine with the Marie Kondo method
nothing says that you have to get rid of something just because you don't think
you're ever gonna actually wear it or use it that's not what for the idea is
does it make you happy does it spark joy does it is it something you want to keep
in your life it doesn't mean it has to be useful or pretty or functioning
but just doesn't make you happy and this does oh I have more of this very similar
to some fabric I already tossed in there but not quite the thing curtains for
some reason those don't go in here this is some fabric that I have a lot of and
I wouldn't make any dresses out of it now but one of my very first medieval
addresses that I made was made out of something all the I think the exact same
pattern I think it's from Joanne's and same pattern but different color it was
like a blue or green green green version of this swirly pattern and so now I keep
on finding it and using it for mock-ups or whatever else but this is a nice
large chunk of mock-up fabric so we'll keep it plus it makes me smile this is
one that I actually made a dress out of it was not a very good dress but I made
it does this make me happy
this one's tougher because I do love silk it is a little bit more stubbly
because it's a kind of more dupioni sort of silk instead of a smooth smooth
taffeta it's also a very like bright pink almost
neon pink color that I don't know that I'm actually gonna get much use out of
so this might be na goes to a new whole lot to be enjoyed fabric so I already
use this to make a dress which I'm I've worn several times on the this channel
and I'm not sure what I will make with it with this last bit of fabric but I
like it keeping it some more of that swoopy design fabric I had some light
stuff earlier I used this to make a pair of matching dog coats for for my two
cute cute pups I have a another curtain in here somehow that's two curtains now
in my fabric stash we're curtains shouldn't be
here's some velvet figured silk that I also already made a dress out of it's
really nice fabric and I still have a pretty good amount of it all right
the only fabric that I am not showing here is some linen that I still have on
a bolt it's just white linen which for reenactment type people is great you can
use it for like 50 million different underlining type things so I think that
is for sure gonna stay and I also still have this red top of the silk that was
gifted to me giftedness it was gifted to me by a fan of the show anonymously
which was very cool and I haven't I haven't had to opened it yet because I
haven't found the perfect project for it yet
but I'm excited too someday it's gonna be so good alright so I am
going to go ahead and call this good enough for tonight
we'll pick it back up in the morning and get all of this re folded up beautifully
I'm gonna try really hard to get them all folded to the same size and shape so
that much in the way that the Marie Kondo system dictates you want to be
able to see all of your things at once if possible and be able to easily access
them without messing up all the things above or below it I'm not a hundred
percent sure how I'm gonna do that yet I don't think about it and tell you in
the morning hello again it's the next day and now I get to tackle how I want
to go about folding so this is actually in my to not keep pile so don't won't
look at it too closely but before I had all of my things stacked on top of each
other which was good for being able to visually see the edge of each of them
but leads to the problem of pulling out things from underneath another and then
they get jumbled and slightly messed up and it's not as good so there's
definitely a strong recommendation to always stack things vertically if
possible now with fabric that's a little bit tough because no matter what I do to
keep this up it's not going to stay up you could try
putting them all next to each other so tightly that they're all forced to stay
up but then you still have the problem of when you pull it out things get messy
and that's not so good now with enough folding much like her method for
clothing you know I could sit here and fold things in and eventually achieve
kind of a standing roll thing but unfortunately it's something like this
wouldn't make very good space usage of my closet where I keep my fabric because
the rolls are only about this big whereas my closets about this deep you
don't want to have things behind others or you're wasting space behind it on the
shelf not so good so I don't really love this as a solution it'd be different if
I had narrower shelving I think this probably would be the way I would go
which is probably be what she would recommend but I won't work for me
so however I do have one or two things that are already wrapped up in these
cardboard course which actually totally would stand great
and it's actually if you go to a fabric store that's how they are often stored
at the store although usually it's up like this but you get the idea so I
think that something like this is the solution I want to go for but I don't
have bits of cardboard hanging around they're the right size so I went to the
store and I got myself some foam core boards which I am going to cut up to the
correct size and wrap my fabric up in it so first I went back to my closet and
measured the depth and the height of my available shelving I do have my shelves
that's slightly different heights but the top two here are close enough and
then I've got one that's approximately double that height below it and now that
I have my measurements I can go ahead and use those to cut up my board to the
correct size now I already bought boards that are 20
inches in depth which is perfect all I need to do is divide them up so that
they'll fit height wise in my drawer I keep saying drawer it's not a drawer if
the shelf but you get the idea right
so my initial cut in half is done which means that these will now fit really
nicely on to my bigger shelf but I'm gonna cut down a few more so that
they'll fit nicely on the narrower shelves up top just in case it wasn't
quite clear I am NOT in any way shape or form saying that you should or must fold
your fabric this way this is just how I think it might be kind of neat to to try
and I'm sure that you could get away with using regular cardboard or like I
said before folding it completely without any inner support so please do
feel free if you feel like this method isn't isn't your jam something about it
isn't quite right for you that's fine I'm definitely not advocating that
anybody do it this way this is purely me experimenting to see if this is a fabric
storage solution that makes me happy
alright let's go ahead and get bowling
two down
so I do have a few here that I've already folded to the depth of my shelf
from two years ago whenever I reorganized all this and some of the
fabrics like this one are kind of stiff enough it won't stand up completely on
its own but between some layers of fabric with boards inside I'll leave a
couple of them board lists in part because I'm not entirely sure that I
have enough boards for my fabric so just in case I'm gonna kind of hedge my bets
a little bit by leaving some of them unboard that I think can take it
okay so here's a bunch of my narrow ones I think I'm going to tackle some of the
bigger boards with the longer pieces of fabric NYX well first things first with
this one I sewed it up into a loop so that I could dye it evenly and rotate
the loop as I went but that means that right now my ends are currently sewn
together so I think I'm gonna have to seam rip this apart before I can roll up
the rest of it
all right now it's time for the exciting reveal you stuck with me through the
explanation at the beginning the picking out of what fabric I wanted to keep or
get rid of the tedious but hopefully fairly fast by the time you guys see it
holding and now now you get to see the big reveal except you don't because
whenever I went to put my bolts into the shelves it turns out that despite
carefully measuring the height of my shelf I unfortunately didn't take into
account that the fabric itself on the end of the bolt was gonna take up quite
a bit of room I did add some extra breathing room for my bolt but not
enough for the thicker wool fabrics of which I have a ton so oh well whoops I
went ahead and took them back to the cutting board unrolled them cut the
inner support down so that it could fit and then refold the whole thing back up
and now they fit beautifully and no you get the final reveal it's not very
impressive when you have a whole bunch of empty room it's not as satisfying as
it would be if I had two three foolish elves of beautifully arranged
fabrics well part of that is that I got rid of some stuff yes but a lot of it is
just that before it was kind of sloppily in there with some empty space and back
and not quite filling up to the top and so on so now that it's very very densely
packed in there and completely filling up this is this shelf it's gonna look
like a lot less well well but what's exciting here is that now that I very
carefully condensed down I have so much more room for more fabric
in the future it's gonna be so good that was the message I supposed to take from
all this right get rid of some of the stuff that I don't like as much and then
get a whole bunch of new fabrics that I like a lot right that's the plan right
let me go ahead and get out of the way for a second here kind of pan down so
you can see my my glorious two shelves of fabric well I hope that you guys
enjoyed that video I think it was one of my most self-indulgent videos so far it
was literally watch me go through my fabric which was something that I wanted
and needed to do anyway but you got to join me for the adventure now I still
need to tackle the entire rest of the room but I can't imagine that you guys
have much interest in seeing this level of shenanigans with my entire setup so
if you really really really do let me know I suppose and we'll see what we can
work out but if you're like okay that was fun but no more I understand with
that I think that is everything that I needed to to do today who actually I
have one little thing leftover we were just talking about getting new fabric to
fill up these beautiful shelves right for those of you that follow me on the
social needs few many have seen that I had some fabric coming my way
specifically for the 1640s 60s 50s stays and it might not look like
much but this stay here
okay so this can you see maybe it might not look like much but it's a very
lovely linen twill which is going to go on the inside the lining of our stays
and then this this is the silk satin which we'll see how well the camera
focuses on it it might not look like much here but it's not a very nice thick
luxurious feeling to it they haven't gotten their own bolts yet but they can
hang out in here but in theory they shouldn't be in there for too much
longer right if I ever get to making this project maybe someday so thank you
so much for watching my video for the five of you that are still watching it
was a lot of fun to do something new and different I think every video I'm doing
something a little bit new and different but you know for anybody that's curious
the fabric that's left over that I did not want in my curated collection here
was some of it given to local people who sew and could use some extra fabric
maybe in the sizes that I had and the rest will likely go to Goodwill I did
consider doing some sort of like channel giveaway but one it feels kind of weird
to be like I don't want this here you have it and - I got rid of a lot of
things that were polyester or had holes in them or were like patterns that you
wouldn't probably maybe maybe you would I don't know I wouldn't want to use for
historical or even just clothing and making you know some of it was you know
anyways before this very long video gets even longer
goodnight guys
I do this that's not how you say goodbye
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